Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-28

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sin, great pardon. For eighty years OF
transgression, an eternity of forgiveness
For crime deep as hell, an atonement high
as heaven; that where sin abounded, so
grace may much more abound; that as sin
reigned unto death, even so may grace
reign through Righteousness unto eternal
life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Angel of
the Covenant, dip thy wing in this living
fountain to-day, and wave it over
THIS SOLEMN AssKMBLAGE,
that our souls msy be washed 10 ''the water
Of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the
gate"
Further, remark that this well of the
Gospel is at the gate of comfort. Do you
know where David was when he uttered
the words Of the text? He was in the
cave Of Adullam. That is where some of
you are now. Has the world always gone
smoothly with your Has it never pur-
sued you with slanderP Is your health
always good? Have your fortunes never
perished? Are your children all alive and
well? Is there one dead lamb in the fold
Are you ignorant Of the way to the ceme-
terry? Have you ever heard the bell toll
when it seemed as if every stroke of the
iron clapper bent your heart? Are the
skies as bright when you look into them
as they used to be when other eyes, now
closed, used to look into them? Is there
some trunk or drawer in your house that
you 60 to only on anniversary days, when
there comes beating against your soul the
surf Of great ocean of agony? It is the cave
of Adnllam! The cave Of Adullsm Is
there some David here whose fatherly
heart wayward Absalom has brokenp Is
there some Abraham here who Is lonely
because Sarah is dead in the family plot
of Machpelab? After thirty or forty years Of
companionship, how hard it was for them
to part! Why not have two seats in the
Lords chariot, 80 that both the old folks
might have gone up at once? My aged
mother, in her last moment, said to my
father, Father, wouldn't it be nice if we
could both 90 together" No, no, no. We
must part. And there are wounded hearts
here to-day. The world can not comfort
you. What can it bring you? Nothing.
Nothing The salve they try to put on
your wounds will not stick. They can
not, with their bungling surgery, mend
the broken bones.
"copper" the Naamathite, and Bildad the
Shuhite, and Bliphaz the Temauite, come
in, and talk, and talk, and talk, but
MISERABLE CoMFoRrERs ARE THEY
all. They cannot pour light into the cave
of Adullsm. They cannot bring single
draught Of water from "the well of Beth.
lehem, which is by the gate" But glory
be to Jesus Christ, there is comfort az the
gate! There is life in the well at the gate.
If you give me time, / will draw up
promise for every man, woman aud child
in this house. Ay, l will do it in two
minutes. will lay hold the rope of the
old we'll. What is your trouble? 'Oh,"
you say, "I am so sick, so weary of life
ailments after ailments" l will draw up
promise 'The inhabitants shall never
say 4 am sick" What is your trOuble?
"Oh, it is loss Of friends-bereaveme
you say. will draw you up promise,
fresh and cool, out Of the we'll: ~ am the
resurrection and the life; he that believeth
in me, though he were dead, yet
shall he live" What is your
trouble' You say it is the
infrmities Of old age will dray you up
promise: Down to old age am with
thee, to hoary hairs will I carry thee"
What is your trouble? 'Oh," you say,
81 have widowed soul, and my children
cry for bread" bring up this promise
leave thy fatherless children-I will
preserve them alive, and let thy widows
trust in me-" break through the armed
ranks of your sorrows to-day, and bring to
your parched lips "a drink OF the water Of
the we'll of Bethlehem, which is by the
gate"
Again the Gospel we'll is at the gate of
heaven. kave not vet heard one single
intelligent account Of the future world
from anybody who does not believe in the
Bible. They throw such fog about the
subject that do not want to go to the
skeptic's heaven, TO the etranscendent ntalist's
heaven, to the worldly philosophers
heaven. / would not exchange the poor.
est room in your house for
THE FINEST HEAVEN
that Huxley, or Stuart Mill, or Darwin
ever dreamed Of Their heaven has no
Christ in it; and heaven without Christ,
though you could sweep the whole universe
into it, would be hell! Oh, they tell us
there are no songs there there are no
coronations in heaven-that is all imagina.
ton. They tell Us we will do there about
what we do here, only on larger scale
geometrize with clearer intellect, and with
alpenstock 90 clamhering up over the ice
bergs in an eternal vacation. Rather than
that, ! turn 10 my Bible. and find Johns
picture of that goo1 laud-that heaven
which was, spur lullaby in infancy-that
heaven which our children in the Sabbath
school will sing about this sfternoon-that
heaven which has well at the gate"
After you have been ON long journey,
and you come in, all bedusted and tired, 10
your home, the first thing you want is re-
freshing ablution; and am glad TO know
that after we get through the pilgrimage of
this world-the hard, dusty pilgrimage
we will find we'll at the gate. In that
one wash, away will 20 our Gins and sor
rows. do not care whether cherub, or
seraph, or my own depar ed friends in that
blessed land place 10 my lips the cup, the
touch Of that cup will he life, will be
heaven! / was reading bow the ancients
sought for the fountain Of perpetual youth.
They thought If they could only find and
drink out Of that well, the old would be-
come young again, the sick would be
cured, and every body wonh have eternal
juvenescence. OF course they could not
find it. Eureka! have found IL! "the
water Of the well Of Bethlehem, which il
by the gate"
think we had better make 3 bargain
with those who leave US, going ont Of this
world from time TO time, as 10 where we
will meet them. Travellers parting ap-
point place of meeting. They say, "we
will meet at Rome, or we will meet at
Stockholm, or Vienna, or Jerusalem, or
Bethlehem" Now, when we come to
stand
BY THE.DEATH PILLOW
of those who are leaving Us for the far
land, do not let Us weep ss though we
would never see them again, but let us,
there standing. appoint place where we
will meet. Where shall il be? Shall il be
on the banks of the river? No. The
banks are too long. Shall IL be In the
temple? No; no. There is such host
there-ten thousand times ten thousand.